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Author Maass, Petra.

Title The cultural context of biodiversity conservation : seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala / Petra Maass.

Publication Info. [Akron, Ohio] : University of Akron Press, 2010.

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Edition North American ed.
Description 1 online resource (1 online resource (283 pages)) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), digital file
Science language
text file
Series Göttinger Beiträge zur Ethnologie ; v. 2.
Note Previously published: Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-280).
Contents INTRODUCTION -- from global to local -- Interdisciplinary approach -- What's it all about? -- Research perspectives -- Conceptual scheme -- GLOBAL CONTEXT -- international policies and local environments -- Biodiversity and indigenous communities -- Convention on Biological Diversity -- In situ conservation and protected area management -- Biodiversity conservation and indigenous knowledge -- DISCURSIVE CONTEXT -- conceptual approaches from anthropology -- Environmental anthropology -- Contributions from political ecology -- Biodiversity as transcultural discourse -- Conceptualising nature -- Multi-sited ethnography -- Perspectives on protected area management -- Conservation paradigms and local livelihoods -- From conflict to cooperation -- From principles to practice -- Remaining quest for participation -- Anthropology of landscape -- Polysemic texture of landscape -- Environmental imagery and identity -- Of emplacement and emotional involvement -- A matter of worldview -- Anthropology of indigenous knowledge -- Conceptual dimension -- definitions and approaches -- Empirical dimension -- the context of doing -- Symbolic dimension -- the context of meaning -- Epistemological dimension -- indigenous knowledge and science -- LOCAL CONTEXT -- national policies and indigenous communities -- National context -- Biological and cultural diversity -- Historical accounts -- From past to present -- Environmental policies -- Maya-Q'eqchi' -- Local economy and social structures -- Historical references -- Conservational context -- National Park Laguna Lachuá -- Co-management approach -- Ethnographic context -- Study sites -- Methodological considerations -- LOCAL EXPRESSIONS OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE -- Context of doing -- the empirical dimension -- Land use systems -- Milpa cycle -- Silvicultural and horticultural practices -- Further subsistence activities -- Context of meaning -- the symbolic dimension -- Indigenous worldview -- Agricultural symbolism -- Ritual practice -- Sacred landscape -- Context of change -- the transformational dimension -- Dynamics of knowledge production -- Knowledge transmission in educational settings -- Origins of knowledge fragmentation -- Knowledge encounters in conservational settings -- Outcomes and prospects -- Seen and the unseen -- From present to future -- Towards a conservation of bio-cultural diversity -- Rethinking scientific assumptions -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- from local to global -- Epilogue.
Summary How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on.
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Subject Landscape assessment -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Landscape assessment.
Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Ethnology -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Ethnology.
Protected areas -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Protected areas.
Human ecology -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Human ecology.
Kekchi Indians -- Science -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Kekchi Indians.
Guatemala.
Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Biodiversity conservation -- Social aspects -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz.
Biodiversity conservation -- Social aspects.
Biodiversity conservation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Print version: 1931968802 9781931968805
ISBN 9781935603344 (electronic book)
1935603345 (electronic book)
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1935603353 (electronic book)
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